A Stage Fright
1993/11/17 automatic writing by Chris Wayan voicing a dream character
THAT DAY...
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| At a dance concert starring some of my ballet classmates, I got so excited I wanted to leap on stage myself. Afterward they urged me "Quit hiding in classes, you're good! Go on, volunteer for a show!" So at last, I tried. The stress left me sick for days. Stage fright! But I noticed something odd. Singing or acting or dancing my OWN work on stage seemed to leave me well--only dancing OTHER PEOPLE'S scripts sickened me! Stage fright, or... something else? Am I incompatible with scripted flash and fire, |
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THAT NIGHT...
I lay abed, a toadish lump. Relit that stage | in memory, pen ready to explore. Suddenly on the page, mad dancing lines began to pour! And in the dark beyond my words' ballet of scripted light, Hovered something scaled and eyed: My true stage fright. In this fey mood, what do I write?
"Fear is a stereo: it talks in both ears.
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Forget ballet! I long to tell secrets, | Show you my privates: The hot wet folds of my Brain, The steamy convolutions of my Dream. Slippery with excitement, I wriggle from the team, A sperm after a slut aesthetic. But this ain't no nudie bar. They'll revoke my artistic license: way Too much licentiousness in my consciousness-- at least for ballet.
But what if I dared?
The scales of night are falling. | What hovered in the dark Like bats avoiding light, Now drops to the stage like a cat. Dragon lands, and takes no bow. Won't dance, just holds to the center. Wings nick the curtains, steam-veils drift. Huge, deadly, spiked: a stage fright. Green-golden-eyed it stares and stares, Till telepathically it shares: "Once I dreamed I was a mammal born..." Offstage someone whispers: "Where's That vaudeville hook?" But no one human dares.
Backstage, the manager hisses
But that cold mind proceeds in calm
But waiting a thoughtful
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MORAL
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If it sounds like I'm claiming I went on strike, | Summoned illness to block an un-Tao path, Or that stagefright can make a soul progress... Well, (uncomfortable squirm) ...yes.
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